Georg Forster : voyager, naturalist, revolutionary /
Goldstein, J�urgen, 1962-
Georg Forster : voyager, naturalist, revolutionary / Georg Forster, voyager, naturalist, revolutionary J�urgen Goldstein ; translated by Anne Janusch. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Nature, a perilous word -- Beginnings: 1754-1772 -- Views of nature : the voyage around the world, 1772-1775 -- Interludes: 1776-1788 -- Views of the political : the Revolution, 1789-1793 -- The end : the great perplexity, 1793-1794 -- Epilogue: The mahogany trunk -- Notes -- English-language works -- Bibliography of the German edition -- Index.
Georg Forster (1754-94) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator - and a revolutionary. Granted the extraordinary opportunity to sail around the world as part of Captain James Cook's fabled crew, Forster touched icebergs, walked the beaches of Tahiti, visited far-flung foreign nations, lived with purported cannibals, and crossed oceans and the equator. Forster recounted the journey in his 1777 book 'A Voyage Round the World', a work of travel and science that not only established Forster as one of the most accomplished stylists of the time - and led some to credit him as the inventor of the literary travel narrative - but also influenced other German trailblazers of scientific and literary writing, most notably Alexander von Humboldt.
Translated from the German.
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Forster, Georg, 1754-1794.
Forster, Georg, 1754-1794
1700-1799
Authors, German--18th century--Biography.
Naturalists--Germany--Biography.
Ethnologists--Germany--Biography.
�Ecrivains allemands--18e si�ecle--Biographies.
Naturalistes--Allemagne--Biographies.
Ethnologues--Allemagne--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
Authors, German
Ethnologists
Naturalists
Germany
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
PT1865.F15 / Z6613 2019
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Georg Forster : voyager, naturalist, revolutionary / Georg Forster, voyager, naturalist, revolutionary J�urgen Goldstein ; translated by Anne Janusch. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Nature, a perilous word -- Beginnings: 1754-1772 -- Views of nature : the voyage around the world, 1772-1775 -- Interludes: 1776-1788 -- Views of the political : the Revolution, 1789-1793 -- The end : the great perplexity, 1793-1794 -- Epilogue: The mahogany trunk -- Notes -- English-language works -- Bibliography of the German edition -- Index.
Georg Forster (1754-94) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator - and a revolutionary. Granted the extraordinary opportunity to sail around the world as part of Captain James Cook's fabled crew, Forster touched icebergs, walked the beaches of Tahiti, visited far-flung foreign nations, lived with purported cannibals, and crossed oceans and the equator. Forster recounted the journey in his 1777 book 'A Voyage Round the World', a work of travel and science that not only established Forster as one of the most accomplished stylists of the time - and led some to credit him as the inventor of the literary travel narrative - but also influenced other German trailblazers of scientific and literary writing, most notably Alexander von Humboldt.
Translated from the German.
9780226474816 022647481X
org.bibliovault.9780226474816 BiblioVault
GBB945503 bnb
019285004 Uk
Forster, Georg, 1754-1794.
Forster, Georg, 1754-1794
1700-1799
Authors, German--18th century--Biography.
Naturalists--Germany--Biography.
Ethnologists--Germany--Biography.
�Ecrivains allemands--18e si�ecle--Biographies.
Naturalistes--Allemagne--Biographies.
Ethnologues--Allemagne--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
Authors, German
Ethnologists
Naturalists
Germany
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
PT1865.F15 / Z6613 2019
838/.609